We are currently anchored in a bay off the St. John's River, about 15 miles upstream from Jacksonville. We stopped at a free dock at St. Simon's Island near Brunswick and biked to a great barbecue shack for lunch and got some groceries. Met a neat disabled vet who lives on his anchored boat there. We went outside at the Brunswick channel 65 miles to Jacksonville and made camp at the free dock at Sister's Creek where we have stopped several times before. Met a really nice lady there who is the cruising editor for Chesapeake Bay Magazine. She is working fom her boat, writing for the magazine as she works her way down the ICW. She is single handing her boat, and extremely capable, but Cindy and I helped her dock in the cross wind and current at the free dock. Coming down the outside allowed us to pump out off shore 6 miles. It was a fairly flat day, so no seasickness for Cindy. Yesterday we moved up thje St. John's to our current anchorage and today will move another 10 miles or so to Green Cove Springs where there is another free dock and a NAPA store. I need an oil filter for the generator and change the oil, whick is in the plan for the afternoon. At present however, we are going nowhere. The fog is so thick I can't see the shore, so until it burns off, I am watching a replay of the Wild win last night against the Kings. It was a west coast game, so way to late for me. There was a hatch last night and this morning there are a billion gnats covering the boat. They don't bite but as thick as anything I have ever seen.
Engine Hours 5287.9
Genset Hours 5678.7 (time for oil change)
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| Gnats covering the boat |
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| And the windows |
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| Morning fog beginning to lift |
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| Flat day on the outside, Brunswick to Jacksonville |
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| Note our speed with the tide going up the St. John's near Jacksonville |
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| Met this guy going out the Brunswick entrance |
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